Twitter will reduce some messages less than 140 characters

Posting messages on the Twitter social network with a link or picture will have a new condition: the user should be more concise with text to accompany the message. And since today February 20, 2013, the network of microblogging spends less character to such shipments. Serve with photos or web addresses some message force the customer to have to be more concise in their ads, taking stock, more specifically, up to 117 or 118 characters in total.

The famous social network messaging came to light in 2006. Responsible for carrying out the service was Jack Dorsey. And the main theme of Twitter was to have a message in plain text, the style of mobile SMS, what the user was doing at the time. However, shortly after included more features. And the most common today are attaching a photo or a link to an external page. Thus, getting sent messages show additional information of the matter was being addressed.

However, from Mashable explains that the messages are accompanied with a link to a photograph or reduce the 140 characters available for text, becoming 118. There will also be cases where it is reduced to the 117 characters available in the case of a site with the security protocol “https”. Therefore, the original idea of relying on text messages as if they were texts sent from a mobile phone, you aside their reason for being. Indeed, some already qualify to Twitter as another means of communication that provides instant information and firsthand.

But beware, because the changes are not only these. Apparently, the famous social network that already has more than 500 million registered users and is becoming as widely used as one of the giants of the Internet, Facebook, also wants to get their hands on the quality of messages posted by users. As discussed, from now on, every message or tweet sent to Internet will be accompanied by a code -invaluable for the common user, which indicates the relevance of the text given to then assess whether it is important or not. Moreover, the levels would be: none, low, medium or high.

And, if a single message is able to start a big discussion on Twitter through different responses to an original tweet or retweets are several others-make the play-fully, the level of information quality would high.

Meanwhile, these changes have not yet been confirmed by the company on its official blog, normal channel of all communications. The same as used recently after several cybercriminals attack, in which 250,000 accounts had been attacked and was recommended to users, and through emails, change the password.